Reversible toaster



Patented Nov. 28., 1882.

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RoeER SHERMAN, oE SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

R EVERSI BLE TOASTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,047, dated November 28, 1882.

Application led October 10, 1882.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ROGER SHERMAN, of Somerville, in the county of Middlesex, of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Reversible Toasters; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure lis a perspective view, and Fig. 2 an edge elevation, ot' a toaster embodying my invention, the nature of which is defined in the .claim hereinafter presented.

In the said drawings, the reversible toaster is shown as composed of two grids, A B, provided With handles C'D and connected by links E F, there being upon one of such handlesv a closing slide, G. Each grid, with ex? ception ot' the two end bars, a b, thereof, is

`composed of wires c d e j' g h 1' k I, arranged parallel to each other, at equal distances apart, and at right angles to and connected to the said two cross-bars, which are tubular. The Wires ef and h and i of each gridare extended beyond the grid and bent and twistedin manner as represented to form the handle.

In carrying out myimprovementon the toaster provided with grids, as described, I form each ofthe outermost wires, c and Z, with one or more arched bends, as shown at m, the bends of each ot'said wires of one grid being projected (No model.)

out such devices to the toaster the slice of bread, on becoming toasted on one side, and

thereby shrunk in thickness, is frequently not rmly held between and by the grids, and consequently becomes liable to fall ont of the toaster While such toaster may be in the act ot' being reversed or turned over. The bends or projectionsm prevent the accidental escape ot' the toasted bread from the toaster.

I claim as my invention- A reversible toaster, substantially as described, having to each of its outernios gridwires one or more projections or bendsm, arranged essentially in manner and for te p urpose as set forth.

ROGER SHERMAN.

Vitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

